phalanx
Endochondral bones that are often elongate and arranged in rows of articulating elements, and form the visible part of the digits. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the phalanx is
Endochondral bones that are often elongate and arranged in rows of articulating elements, and form the visible part of the digits. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the phalanx is
It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the phalanx connects to
The atlas records 68 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex and appendicular skeleton, and 6 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the phalanx. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as digit long bone, long bone of digit, phalange, phalanges and phalanx bone. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003221, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, digit and limb, and 3 more.
- A kind of: bone element, endochondral bone, long bone, skeletal element and subdivision of skeleton.
- subtype: distal phalanx of manual digit 1, distal phalanx of manual digit 2, distal phalanx of manual digit 3, distal phalanx of manual digit 4, distal phalanx of manual digit 5 and distal phalanx of manus, and 30 more.
- contains: distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 1, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 2, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 3, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 4, distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of manual digit 5 and distal epiphysis of distal phalanx of pedal digit 1, and 9 more.
- composed of: bone tissue.
- inserts into: extensor digitorum brevis pes.
- connects: interphalangeal joint.
Questions
Where is the phalanx?
It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the phalanx connect to?
Part of: anatomical structure, appendage girdle complex, appendicular skeleton, autopod region, digit and limb, and 3 more.
Is the phalanx the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.